Dugald Macdonald Email & Phone Number

Auckland, Nz

Auckland, New Zealand

Consulting support for development and delivery leadership.

Global

Auckland, New Zealand

What a ride! The highs of a successful IPO and the lows of Covid.I'm incredibly proud of the Engineering team that I'm leaving behind. Over the past 18 months we've built one of the best Software Delivery teams I've ever had the pleasure to work with. We've worked hard to create a high performing team of 45... consistently delivering quality in a challenging environment.Harmoney was established in 2014 to introduce peer to peer lending to New Zealand. Harmoney has since become… Show more What a ride! The highs of a successful IPO and the lows of Covid.I'm incredibly proud of the Engineering team that I'm leaving behind. Over the past 18 months we've built one of the best Software Delivery teams I've ever had the pleasure to work with. We've worked hard to create a high performing team of 45... consistently delivering quality in a challenging environment.Harmoney was established in 2014 to introduce peer to peer lending to New Zealand. Harmoney has since become the largest online personal lending platform in Australia and New Zealand, giving people a quick and simple way to borrow online. Harmoney provides risk-priced, unsecured personal loans up to $70,000 and has helped over 45,000 customers borrow more than $1.7 billion through over 80,000 loans (as of Jul 2020). Show less

Auckland, New Zealand

I joined Infotools to lead the software development group (30 staff across multiple disciplines) with the specific goal of implementing a stronger, more cohesive, engineering and delivery practice. Change was necessary to improve efficiencies in meeting tight deadlines.• Re-transformation of the Infotools agile practice & tools• Improve collaboration & transparency between Infotools groups• Restructure & realign roles towards an improved delivery model• Implement… Show more I joined Infotools to lead the software development group (30 staff across multiple disciplines) with the specific goal of implementing a stronger, more cohesive, engineering and delivery practice. Change was necessary to improve efficiencies in meeting tight deadlines.• Re-transformation of the Infotools agile practice & tools• Improve collaboration & transparency between Infotools groups• Restructure & realign roles towards an improved delivery model• Implement continuous delivery & DevOps strategies Show less

Auckland, New Zealand

I moved into the position of General Manager for LiveOps NZ, running the New Zealand office.As Senior Director of Engineering I took over management of 3 USA based teams (2 development & 1 quality), with engineers in the USA, India & New Zealand.Implementation of organisational & agile practice change for LiveOps engineering globally.Off-shore (India) resource engagement, contract negotiation & management.

Auckland, New Zealand

I led a team of talented engineers in our Auckland office as well as direct & indirect management of a distributed team of QA engineers (managers/automation/manual) in the USA, India & Argentina.

Auckland, New Zealand

I managed multi-disciplined software development teams ensuring we delivered against individual & team KPIs. I organized, managed & tracked multiple ongoing development projects across various products and development frameworks. I managed relationships with a variety of vendors, negotiating outsource agreements and contract arrangements.• Up to 20 direct reports (7 permanent, the remainder contractors) located across the North Island.• Performance reviews & objectives… Show more I managed multi-disciplined software development teams ensuring we delivered against individual & team KPIs. I organized, managed & tracked multiple ongoing development projects across various products and development frameworks. I managed relationships with a variety of vendors, negotiating outsource agreements and contract arrangements.• Up to 20 direct reports (7 permanent, the remainder contractors) located across the North Island.• Performance reviews & objectives setting.• Permanent & contract recruitment & resource management.• Project Management.• Scrum Coach & Mentor, Scrum Master. When I joined Global Wealth ANZ development practices, quality and delivery were poor. In my time at the ANZ I was instrumental in defining the Global Wealth ANZ SDLC and the implementation of…• Agile development practices using Scrum and best practices in software development.• Team ownership… developers & testers working together and taking responsibility, as a team, for product development and delivery.• Organisational change in the way Global Wealth ANZ performed development, UAT & application support. Show less

Auckland, New Zealand

Lead Software engineer for Oracle & SQLServer/.NET developments.

Washington Dc, Usa & Auckland, New Zealand

Software development & implementation.1 year at Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White (Washington DC, USA)1 year at Chapman Tripp (Auckland, NZ)

Auckland

Various Oracle developer contracts.Theta, Southern Cross, Aderant, Phillips Fox, Affco, MOED, Netway Communications, Professional Plus.

Auckland, New Zealand

Europe & New Zealand

Various Wang PACE developer contracts.Europe: Deutsche Bank, Wang Italy, Wang Nederland, Wang UK, Relational Developments Limited.NZ: Telecom, AMP, Solutions Group.

London, United Kingdom

Bsc, Computer Science

Education record